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bags – and a bunch of obligatory jokes about Mrs. Slocombe's cat and Mr. Humphries' sexuality – and head off on holiday to Costa Plonka in Are You Being Served? (1977). What could possibly go wrong? Extras across the set include new audio commentaries, archival interviews, trailers, and a recording from the 1977 Steptoe & Son Down Under Australian stage show! World Cinema connoisseurs are well served this month with the first of Imprint's Collaborations collections – The Cinema of continued NEWFROM IMPRINT FILMS

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on Red Sorghum (1988), with Li playing a young widow in a rural village who must fend off bandits and the invading Japanese army during the 1930s. Ju Dou (1990) sees Li struggling to keep the parentage of her son a secret from her brutal and infertile husband, while in Raise the Red Lantern (1991) – one of Yimou's best and most acclaimed features – she becomes the concubine to a wealthy lord in 1920s China. Li plays the title role in The Story of Qui Ju (1992), a tenacious farmer seeking justice for an assault on her

husband, and in To Live – aka Huo zhe (1994), she must navigate the turbulent period of Chinese history from the 1940s to the '70s. Yimou takes a different direction with Shanghai Triad (1995), a crime-drama set in Shanghai's underworld during the

The Ipcress File (1965) introduces Harry on assignment to investigate the brainwashing of British scientists, while suspenseful follow-up Funeral in Berlin (1966) sends him to the German capital to extricate a defecting Russian general. The third and final film in the series, Billion Dollar Brain (1967), adds genre to the espionage, with Harry lured out of retirement to investigate an anti-Communist plot involving a supercomputer and bioterrorism. This one's directed by legendary Brit filmmaker Ken Russell ( The Devils ), but don't expect the bonkers shenanigans that distinguished his later films. Extras for the set include Michael Caine documentaries, audio commentaries, archival interviews, featurettes and more. Out Sept 29 . Three much-loved, long-running '70s British sitcoms – Dad's Army , Steptoe & Son and Are You Being Served? – made the leap to the big screen with the original casts and all the broad gags. A Big Screen British Comedy box set brings these four features to Blu-ray for the very first time along with a bounty of bonus features. Shot between series three and four, Dad's Army (1971) sees bank manager Captain

ZhangYimou and Gong Li . The filmmaking partnership between Chinese director

Zhang Yimou and his muse, actress Gong Li, has produced some of cinema's most sumptuous and acclaimed films –

1930s. This would be the final collaboration between Yimou and Li in the 1990s, and they

many of them initially banned in the director's home country. Their collaboration spans 10 films – eight of which are collected

would not reunite until 2006's The Curse of the Golden Flower , a wuxia martial arts epic with flying ninjas set in the Forbidden City. Which brings us to the most recent collaboration, Coming Home (2014), a historical drama with Li playing the amnesiac wife of a professor who has been sent to a labour camp during China's cultural revolution.

for the very first time in this Limited Edition Blu- ray Hardbox, featuring new 2K scans from the original negatives along with a 60-page booklet and a wealth of supplementary material including featurettes, interviews, documentaries and more. Yimou and Li made their feature debuts together

SPACE 1999: ULTIMATE EDITION Gerry Anderson is best known for the Thunderbirds , but he also created this high-concept British sci-fi series with wife Sylvia, which ran for two seasons in 1975–77. The show follows the crew of Moonbase Alpha, who are hurtled into deep space when the moon is blown out of Earth's orbit following a nuclear explosion – and all kinds of alien threats are waiting for them... Starring the late, great Martin Landau as leader John Koenig and his then-wife Barbara Bain as medical officer Helena Russell, the cast also includes

Barry Morse as science officer Victor Bergman and Aussie actor Nick Tate as hotshot pilot Alan Carter. And the special guest star list is long and distinguished, including Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Joan Collins, Julian Glover, Patrick Troughton, Judy Geeson and Ian

Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe) assembling a motley platoon to become the Home Guard during World War II, in what is basically a big screen reboot of the series. Steptoe & Son (1972) follows the grimy misadventures of Shepherd's Bush junk peddlers Albert Steptoe (Wilfrid Brambell) and son Harold (Harry H. Corbett) in a spin-off feature from the series. When Harold marries a stripper, Albert is determined to put an end to their wedded bliss. A box office hit, a sequel quickly followed, Steptoe & Son Ride Again (1973), involving a knackered horse and a big loss on the greyhounds. And finally, the dysfunctional Grace Bros. gang pack their

McShane among many other great British thesps. Imprint brings all 48 episodes to Blu-ray in a Deluxe Hardbox Edition limited to 2000 copies, with each episode digitally remastered from the original 35mm film elements. Extras include a 48-page booklet, audio commentaries on selected episodes, featurettes, interviews, image galleries and much more. Also available as a Complete Series DVD set, this is a must-have for sci- fi and cult TV fans, while stocks last.

jbhifi.com.au • The Imprint September range will be available in deluxe editions with unique artwork for a limited time only, while stocks last. PRE-ORDER NOW!

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